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Cotton Variation

Cortney Lamar Charleston

‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’

Fanciphobia

Colin Herd

‘I wear my fear around me / I fan it out on my pillow’

Four Poems

Crispin Best

‘i feel good like a person / holding flowers on a train / feels dumb’

Four Poems

Mark Waldron

‘Just look at those nasty trees flaunt / their leaves, each one a tra-la-la.’

Four Poems

Michael Earl Craig

‘Running through the ages from this casual rabbit.’

From This End of Sadness

Peter Gizzi

‘I did not understand / the code that held / me to the world.’

In Ballard

Alissa Quart

‘We name stuff and hope / that’s proof. How / reporting works.’

In Conversation

Liz Berry & Mona Arshi

‘I longed for poems to meet me in my sorrow and help me know how to live in that new world, how to survive it.’

Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)

John Kinsella

‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’

Quantum Displacement

Nuar Alsadir

‘I don’t want / to be a figure others lean their names into’

Tasked with Designing the Vienna House

Ken Babstock

‘Sky of bright rust and / soapy aquamarine.’

The Politics of Feeling

Nick Laird

‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’

The Taste of the Feeling

Peter Mishler

‘Shy yet contemptible object / in an unleaking vial collected.’